Books Available Online

These online collections include digital versions of many out-of-copyright works including government documents, historical magazines and other periodicals, and books published before 1923. Coverage can be spotty, but these sites are worth searching... just in case.

Full-text collection includes books in the public domain. Includes only snippets of books still under copyright unless otherwise specified by author or publisher. Also includes magazines and periodicals.

This database provides access to over one million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century. The collection encompasses topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects. *Does NOT include all 19th-century newspapers: click on "Publications List" to see the newspapers included.

Provides information about the cultural life and history during the 19th century through first-hand reports of major events, biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements. Includes the Colored American, 1840-1841; Frederick Douglass' Paper (Continuation of the North Star), 1851-1855; Freedom's Journal, 1827- Mar. 1829; National Era, 1847-1860; Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857; The Christian Recorder, 1861-1870 and 1872-1882; The North Star, 1847-1851; and the Weekly Advocate/Colored American, 1837-1841.

A collection of video available for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Contains original documents of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history from 1493 to the present through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.

Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. GSU's records of the National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU) and selected portions of the United Garment Workers of America records have been digitized by Gale/Cengage Learning and made available to the Georgia State University community, both on and off-campus.

The Atlanta Constitution, historically known as "The Voice of the New South," is the only major daily newspaper in the Atlanta area. This is a full-image archive covering content 1868 - 1984 includes all articles, editorials, ads, and photographs.

The Atlanta Daily World is Atlanta's oldest continuously publishing African American newspaper and one of its oldest African American-owned business. Founded by W.A. Scott on August 5, 1928, it became America's first successful African American daily newspaper in 1933.

The Digital National Security Archive is a collaboration of the National Security Archive and ProQuest providing a comprehensive collection of declassified US government documents. These digitized primary documents go back to 1945 and cover more than 94,000 documents.

Offers four major library collections: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Note: Access is provided by the Georgia State University College of Law Library.

A reference source for quantitative facts of American history, fully cross-referenced and indexed, providing easily searchable tables, their documentation, and essays, and covers migration, health, crime, the Confederate States of America, and more.

A comprehensive full text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises, providing digital images of thousands of legal treatises on US and British law published between 1800 and 1926. It includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Note: Access is provided by the Georgia State University College of Law Library.

A digital resource for conservative news, commentary, and opinion, offering complete abstracting, indexing, and full text coverage for all journal issues dating from its inception in 1955 to the present, providing coverage of political, social, and cultural issues and trends.

Contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of The Nation from its first issue on July 6, 1865 to the present, including historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, puzzles, and also perspectives on news, politics, and culture.

The New Republic Archive database provides current and past issues, with coverage dating back to 1914, of The New Republic in PDF format. Coverage includes politics, the arts, culture, current event, foreign policy, and politics.

Provided by ProQuest Historical Newspapers, offers full text coverage from 1851 to 2012 of the arrival of immigrants, the global financial markets, the introduction of the mass-produced automobile, television, space travel, medical innovations, and more.

Provides a detailed account of US culture and history in a searchable database including articles from popular US magazines. It offers full coverage of the original paper volumes of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.

Focusing on substantial collections of original archival material, Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. This resource offers thousands of color images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history.

This long-running daily afternoon paper served as the newspaper of record for the nation's capital, covering national politics and the daily activities of every branch of government. NOTE: Patrons must login with CampusID and password both on and off campus.

University of North Carolina digital publishing initiative that provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture, primarily from UNC's large collection.

You can also try the same search limiting to site:org rather than site:edu BUT:

Be careful!

EDU = educational institutionORG = organization, which can mean almost ANY kind of noncorporate organization. If you aren't familiar with the organization, do some research on it! Who are they? What do they promote? Are they reliable?

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